The identity tools startup says it has made its passkey software available to developers who want faster and more customizable authentication for their applications.
Stytch says its passkey product is a competitive platform and expects vendors to tap into the growing market for consumer-focused passkey authentication. There are many predictions that passwords as a security measure are on their way out, but the password written on the sticky note on your monitor is even more of a prediction.
The company says its customizable API-based software simplifies cross-platform implementation. Customizability allows developers to embed software within the look and flow of their applications.
Company executives claim Bitcorn.com, Apartment Therapy, and Homebase are among their customers.
Meanwhile, passwordless desktop MFA vendor Secret Double Octopus says it has added a service to its platform that can provide businesses with government-level identity verification in a more flexible, simpler, and lower-cost format than X.509 certificates.
According to the company’s press release, the addition of this service “effectively” provides AAL 3 certification.
Most business people hope that companies like SDO and Stytch will help make passwords obsolete, but that outcome has been predicted for decades.
In fact, Mark Weatherford, chief strategy officer at the U.S. nonprofit National Cybersecurity Center, told trade publication Tech Xplore that 15 years ago he thought passwords were “on their way out.”
Weatherford has become more optimistic over the past few years, but says, “We’re always going to use passwords.” The best hope is to minimize them and integrate them into “complementary authentication systems.”
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Biometric authentication | Cyber ​​security | Passkey | Passwordless authentication | Password | Secret double octopus | Stitch